Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Size: 24 x 36  Wolf Dawn Rising  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” Hal Borland This was the 'second' paint of this wolf in this position but definitely with a change in colors and feeling.  When I saw this one, I was thinking, WOW...and yes I love the freedom in the paint.   Somewhere in my journey the last two years, the joy has slowly left in painting for galleries. Every gallery wants something different.  Just like no winter lasts forever, creativity cannot just stop. What has been churning in my mind is:  Acrylic vs Oil Large vs Small Canvas vs Try

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Inset of painting Golden Sail  Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”  Louisa May Alcott, Little Women We have had a few days of spring type temps and the thought of sailing is creeping into our minds, but we know the lake water would be too cold to be skimming across in a catamaran. Terry is a good sailor when it comes to storms creeping up on the lake... and that comes from experience.  Life is that way as well. Keep your eyes on the Lord... follow where he leads you. Do not be distracted by things around you. If you can trust and follow, you will not

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 I'd Go Walkin Down the Avenue  Size: 16 x 20  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not the norm for me to just paste a huge poem, but I have to: “I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost... I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I am in the same place. But, it isn't my fault. It still takes me a long time to get out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Night Runners  Size: 12 x 18  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that."  Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All Night Runner.  Most of us think of night as the time to rest and recover from the day.  There are some people that come alive at night... they are the late risers in the morning because their joy comes in the evenin

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Ponies in the Meadow  Size: 11 x 14 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie Winter is at play in Texas.  We are bouncing from very very cold to spring temperatures over night...and back and forth.  They say the flu is running rampant and we are trying to stay home as much as possible.    One of the big things on my mind is a puppy we are suppose to pick up.  She is in Savannah and we are here in the Dallas area.   The temps are too cold

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Heart Painting Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." Benjamin Franklin  In Ephesians 2:8 it says "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God."     Right now unfortunately, our nation is split over politics, religion, sexual identity, ... you name it, we are split.  The other split is the half of the nation that has walked away from God.  That is for me the toughest part. Reading the Bible in entirely last year, left me with a broad pict

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Goodnight to the Day.  Size: 12 x 24  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Question Everything.  Your love, your religion, your passions. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers."  Colleen Hoover, Slammed.  When you are thinking about things, often it is good to question things. It seems to be the only way to learn something new or make sense of something you may not fully comprehend. You may not always find your answer or solution, but it asking questions and researching will help you find a peace within yourself.  Be open to all new information.  Be interested in the new, the old and t

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Abstract Horse Painting: Strength of Day  Sold    Size: 16 x 20  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterda

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Morning Has Broken Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."  C.S. Lewis I cannot even remember the last time I wrote to you in my Art Journal.  The past two months have been filled with reflection on direction.  I am already contemplating my word for next year... one thought is, "Let it be"   Yes it is three words, but easy to remember.  I am still debating what shall serve me the best for growth next year as we take the journey into 2018. Some of you may have noticed,